Legal professionals for Sean “Diddy” Combs are pushing for a choose to permit potential jurors for his upcoming legal trial to be requested about their positions on intercourse, medication and violence.
The delicate matters had been raised because the embattled music mogul’s protection workforce submitted a proposed questionnaire for folks summoned for his Might 5 trial in Manhattan.
Prosecutors slammed the protection’s proposed questionnaire, arguing that among the 72 questions had been “utterly irrelevant” to a juror’s potential to serve.
Additionally they cited the intercourse trafficking trial of Ghislaine Maxwell for example of how overly prolonged questionnaires will be damaging.
After Maxwell’s conviction in December 2021, a juror admitted he hadn’t disclosed being a intercourse abuse sufferer — partly as a result of he turned “distracted” whereas filling out the questionnaire and likewise misunderstood among the questions after skimming it “way too fast.”
Diddy, who’s at the moment incarcerated on the Metropolitan Detention Middle in Brooklyn, was charged in September with racketeering conspiracy, transportation to have interaction in prostitution and intercourse trafficking by drive, fraud or coercion. He has pleaded not responsible and maintained his innocence.
R&B singer Cassie Ventura, who has accused Combs of rape, bodily abuse and forcing her to have interaction in varied acts with male intercourse staff, is getting ready to testify in opposition to her ex-boyfriend, in line with a movement filed final week.
Prosecutors have mentioned that lodge surveillance video of Ventura being crushed by Combs in 2016 might be a key piece of the proof on the trial.
Questioning of potential jurors will start on Might 5, with opening statements more likely to begin the next Monday.
Initially Printed: April 12, 2025 at 6:05 PM EDT
